Initiative for Minority Students: Bridges to the Doctor*

描述(申请人提供)：美国正在迅速成为一个更加多样化的国家；到2010年，非白人、种族和民族群体将占美国人口的多数。必须努力增加卫生专业人员的多样性，以改善种族和少数民族患者获得护理的机会，增加患者的选择和满意度，并为卫生专业学生提供更好的教育体验。迫切需要增加拥有知识基础、文化敏感度和研究技能的专业护士，为困扰这个国家的持续存在的健康差距提供解决方案。这一背景是这一项目的基础，该项目旨在通过强调认知技能发展和角色社会化的倡议，为少数群体研究人员和学者做好准备。“少数民族学生倡议：通往博士学位的桥梁”是托马斯·杰斐逊大学和宾夕法尼亚大学护理项目的合作成果，结合了高度专注、研究密集的学校的优势和学术单位的优势，后者在成功将少数族裔护士转变为高级护理教育项目方面享有公认的声誉。学术部分为统计能力和向博士学习的过渡提供了知识基础，而经验部分允许学生参与宾夕法尼亚大学护理学院目前正在进行的研究项目。学生将与研究人员合作，制定一份适合于准备NIH个人培训奖申请的研究提案。项目基础设施将强调指导并提供必要的资源，以确保项目参与者为博士护理课程的入学做好准备。一个咨询委员会将指导旨在确保该项目成功的活动的演变。已经制定了全面评价和向有关社区传播项目成果的计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The United States is rapidly becoming a more diverse nation; non-white racial and ethnic groups will constitute a majority of the American population by 2010. Efforts to increase the diversity of health professionals are imperative to achieve improved access to care for racial and ethnic minority patients, greater patient choice and satisfaction, and better educational experiences for health professions students. The need to increase the numbers of professional nurses who have the knowledge base, cultural sensitivity and research skills to provide solutions to the persistent health disparities that are plaguing this nation is urgent. This background is the foundation for this project that aims to prepare minority researchers and scholars through initiatives that emphasize cognitive skills development and role socialization. The "Initiative for Minority Students: Bridges to the Doctorate" is a collaborative effort of the nursing programs at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania, combines the strengths of a highly focused, research-intensive school with the strengths of an academic unit that enjoys an established reputation for success in transitioning minority nurses into advanced nursing education programs. An academic component provides the knowledge base for statistical competence and transition to doctoral study while an experiential component allows students to participate in research projects currently being conducted by nursing faculty at the University Of Pennsylvania. Students will work with researchers and develop a research proposal suitable for the preparation of an application for an individual traineeship award from NIH. The project infrastructure will emphasize mentoring and provide the requisite resources to insure the readiness of project participants for matriculation in a doctoral nursing program. An advisory committee will guide the evolution of activities designed to insure the success of this project. Plans for comprehensive evaluation and for dissemination of project outcomes to communities of interest have been established.